Pharmacist vs. Apothecary — What's the Difference?

A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a health professional who knows the composition, properties, interactions and proper use of medications. The pharmacist provides pharmaceutical information and clinical advice to the public, as well as primary health care and First Aid services to patients.

Apothecary () is one term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients. The modern chemist (also known as a pharmacist in American English) has taken over this role.

A person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs.

A person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.

A person trained in pharmacy and licensed to practice.

One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist.

(pharmacy) A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.

See pharmacy.

One who studies pharmacy.

Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.

One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.

Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

(uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs